I have some 'splaining to do, yes?
Okay, I KNOW I've been really bad about updating this.
These last two weeks...especially the latest one...have been more or less emotional, mental, physical, and academic hell. I really don't know how else to describe it.
Seriously, when I wrote my last post I was at an all-time emotional and mental low I haven't seen since my depression in high school. It was really, really bad but thankfully didn't quite cross the suicidal line. I think I know what I need to do now.
Between Wednesday and Thursday I didn't sleep for about forty-eight hours; I spent all night doing Arabic homework, and then panicking when I still had SO MUCH SHIT TO DO AND I HAD TWENTY MINUTES TO DO IT BEFORE I HAD TO STOP AND GET READY FOR CLASS. And then...I finished it with four minutes to spare. And was pleasantly surprised. And then I realized I had a presentation due in Culture and Society that I hadn't started that was due at 2. Once I figured out the subject I wanted to cover, I found an article that fit and finished the analysis in less than two hours. And I think everyone had the most interest in my article. It was about controversy over Christian Seders in South Florida. (Ask me if you want to know more about them/the article.) As dumb as this sounds the entire thing gave me hope that when push comes to shove I can actually survive. Academically. Physically. Kind of.
And then we had the Murder Mystery theater later that day (Thursday. The most recent one from this date, so...April 1st. On that note I missed Bunsen Burner Day on March 31st.). It...wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. (I was Katara as a bodyguard, nicknamed Turk!Katara.) Raquel, Host King's roommate, did my hair beautifully. The actors were more spot on than in the previous rehearsals--although I've never been more thoroughly convinced I can't act (though ironically enough I managed to keep in character even while my mother, who was there, was constantly pestering me). Now we know to prepare for everything much, much earlier. And before that there was a mix up, so our room had only three tables for the guests to sit down and eat at, and no chairs. We had to set up everything ourselves. The surprise ending (they hadn't even told the rest of the actors!) was priceless, and I'm surprised my mom got the Deathnote reference "Isn't that from that movie that Luke brought over to our house one time?" Gina, you were fantastic. Love you. Our characters were: Sir Integra Hellsing, Shinji Ikari, Katara, Squall Lionheart, Summoner Yuna, Lina Inverse, Li/Hei, Axel from Kingdom Hearts,
Monkey D. Luffy, Morgan Freeman/God, and L/Ryuuzaki as the detective. The victim? Gendo Ikari. The perpetrator? Alucard.
Came home, passed out, woke up, saw "Clash of the Titans."
SPOILER ALERT
I was pleasantly surprised by it. It was very...ancient Greek (homoeroticism, treatment of women,...there was more but I forgot what I listed in my head). They more or less completely messed up so many myths, but I was surpisingly okay with most of it. I'm glad they included the Stygian witches in Perseus's story this time (they mave have in the original movie, but I don't remember), and I loved Medusa's design. Except...she was a rattlesnake and rattlesnakes are native to the Americas, not Eurasia. I liked the whole thing where humans were rebelling against the gods. And more or less won-ish. Honestly I was waiting for a mythological movie like that. Liam Neeson was a good Zeus, Ralph Fiennes was a badass Hades. I just...wish he hadn't been made the villain. For some reason gods of death are ALWAYS made the villains, even when in myths they're either good or neutral. *sigh* But his entrances and exits were fantastic, so I can't complain too much. Sam Worthington--Perseus--sounded like Jason Statham with a British accent. The Gods' set up was cool, but I wish they'd sort of...mentioned more gods? Like you only meet Zeus, Hades and Apollo. Poseidon you just sort of...see. They are shown to more or less be complete and utter bitches/bastards, which I find far more true to the stories. Also, WHY was the Kraken a child of Hades? It's a SEA creature. It should be a child of Poseidon. It certainly was in the original "Clash of the Titans." I liked the design of it, certainly. It just...made no sense to belong to Hades. I also liked the fact that Perseus DIDN'T become the king, and he didn't end up with the princess. There were moments that seemed rather contrived, but it's mythology so I don't really think that can be avoided.
Since I saw the original movie, I did catch a few references: Calibos, for one, though it seemed sort of random and superfluous in this movie. Though the scene where Perseus kills him seemed almost sad, especially when he changed back to his original self. Andromeda...I thought I would hate her since I figured "Oh great, another dumb, damsel-y goody goody pious princess," but she was barely in it and I came to like her character. She was quiet yet surprisingly strong, she carried herself as rather intelligent, and she did charity work in her city of Argos. Ahem, movie people, but in the original it was called Joppa. Just saying. I enjoyed the mechanical golden owl reference they snuck in there. I was quite happy.
Io was...interesting. I mean, if you know her original story, this character has nothing to do with it other than some unnamed god made an advance on her and her eyes seemed very dewy and cow-like to me. I came to like her character; she proved to be fairly strong in her own right, and she managed to beat a giant scorpion by herself. I was very happy she got together with Perseus, even though she died. When that happened I was like "Of course, the athletic tomboyish chicks die, and we needed to make way for Andromeda as a love interest." But that didn't happen and I'm glad.
Oh my God the body count. People were dying left and right, SERIOUSLY. And I wish they'd stopped to explain the plot a little more--they randomly started mentioning how important some eclipse was and I spent part of the movie going "Okay, when did that happen?"
OMG THE DJINN. They were freaking fantastic, and my favorite part of the movie. I want to be a nomadic djinn that rides giant scorpions around the world. To me they were one of the coolest parts of the movie. I was also rather proud of the pegasii, they actually looked rather natural.
I think that...more or less sums it up.
I'm going to try to be better with these updates. If not, it is because school has really, really been eating at me.
On a random note, I figured out more to my short faux-lesbian story. I'd like to revise it and finish it over the summer.
These last two weeks...especially the latest one...have been more or less emotional, mental, physical, and academic hell. I really don't know how else to describe it.
Seriously, when I wrote my last post I was at an all-time emotional and mental low I haven't seen since my depression in high school. It was really, really bad but thankfully didn't quite cross the suicidal line. I think I know what I need to do now.
Between Wednesday and Thursday I didn't sleep for about forty-eight hours; I spent all night doing Arabic homework, and then panicking when I still had SO MUCH SHIT TO DO AND I HAD TWENTY MINUTES TO DO IT BEFORE I HAD TO STOP AND GET READY FOR CLASS. And then...I finished it with four minutes to spare. And was pleasantly surprised. And then I realized I had a presentation due in Culture and Society that I hadn't started that was due at 2. Once I figured out the subject I wanted to cover, I found an article that fit and finished the analysis in less than two hours. And I think everyone had the most interest in my article. It was about controversy over Christian Seders in South Florida. (Ask me if you want to know more about them/the article.) As dumb as this sounds the entire thing gave me hope that when push comes to shove I can actually survive. Academically. Physically. Kind of.
And then we had the Murder Mystery theater later that day (Thursday. The most recent one from this date, so...April 1st. On that note I missed Bunsen Burner Day on March 31st.). It...wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. (I was Katara as a bodyguard, nicknamed Turk!Katara.) Raquel, Host King's roommate, did my hair beautifully. The actors were more spot on than in the previous rehearsals--although I've never been more thoroughly convinced I can't act (though ironically enough I managed to keep in character even while my mother, who was there, was constantly pestering me). Now we know to prepare for everything much, much earlier. And before that there was a mix up, so our room had only three tables for the guests to sit down and eat at, and no chairs. We had to set up everything ourselves. The surprise ending (they hadn't even told the rest of the actors!) was priceless, and I'm surprised my mom got the Deathnote reference "Isn't that from that movie that Luke brought over to our house one time?" Gina, you were fantastic. Love you. Our characters were: Sir Integra Hellsing, Shinji Ikari, Katara, Squall Lionheart, Summoner Yuna, Lina Inverse, Li/Hei, Axel from Kingdom Hearts,
Monkey D. Luffy, Morgan Freeman/God, and L/Ryuuzaki as the detective. The victim? Gendo Ikari. The perpetrator? Alucard.
Came home, passed out, woke up, saw "Clash of the Titans."
SPOILER ALERT
I was pleasantly surprised by it. It was very...ancient Greek (homoeroticism, treatment of women,...there was more but I forgot what I listed in my head). They more or less completely messed up so many myths, but I was surpisingly okay with most of it. I'm glad they included the Stygian witches in Perseus's story this time (they mave have in the original movie, but I don't remember), and I loved Medusa's design. Except...she was a rattlesnake and rattlesnakes are native to the Americas, not Eurasia. I liked the whole thing where humans were rebelling against the gods. And more or less won-ish. Honestly I was waiting for a mythological movie like that. Liam Neeson was a good Zeus, Ralph Fiennes was a badass Hades. I just...wish he hadn't been made the villain. For some reason gods of death are ALWAYS made the villains, even when in myths they're either good or neutral. *sigh* But his entrances and exits were fantastic, so I can't complain too much. Sam Worthington--Perseus--sounded like Jason Statham with a British accent. The Gods' set up was cool, but I wish they'd sort of...mentioned more gods? Like you only meet Zeus, Hades and Apollo. Poseidon you just sort of...see. They are shown to more or less be complete and utter bitches/bastards, which I find far more true to the stories. Also, WHY was the Kraken a child of Hades? It's a SEA creature. It should be a child of Poseidon. It certainly was in the original "Clash of the Titans." I liked the design of it, certainly. It just...made no sense to belong to Hades. I also liked the fact that Perseus DIDN'T become the king, and he didn't end up with the princess. There were moments that seemed rather contrived, but it's mythology so I don't really think that can be avoided.
Since I saw the original movie, I did catch a few references: Calibos, for one, though it seemed sort of random and superfluous in this movie. Though the scene where Perseus kills him seemed almost sad, especially when he changed back to his original self. Andromeda...I thought I would hate her since I figured "Oh great, another dumb, damsel-y goody goody pious princess," but she was barely in it and I came to like her character. She was quiet yet surprisingly strong, she carried herself as rather intelligent, and she did charity work in her city of Argos. Ahem, movie people, but in the original it was called Joppa. Just saying. I enjoyed the mechanical golden owl reference they snuck in there. I was quite happy.
Io was...interesting. I mean, if you know her original story, this character has nothing to do with it other than some unnamed god made an advance on her and her eyes seemed very dewy and cow-like to me. I came to like her character; she proved to be fairly strong in her own right, and she managed to beat a giant scorpion by herself. I was very happy she got together with Perseus, even though she died. When that happened I was like "Of course, the athletic tomboyish chicks die, and we needed to make way for Andromeda as a love interest." But that didn't happen and I'm glad.
Oh my God the body count. People were dying left and right, SERIOUSLY. And I wish they'd stopped to explain the plot a little more--they randomly started mentioning how important some eclipse was and I spent part of the movie going "Okay, when did that happen?"
OMG THE DJINN. They were freaking fantastic, and my favorite part of the movie. I want to be a nomadic djinn that rides giant scorpions around the world. To me they were one of the coolest parts of the movie. I was also rather proud of the pegasii, they actually looked rather natural.
I think that...more or less sums it up.
I'm going to try to be better with these updates. If not, it is because school has really, really been eating at me.
On a random note, I figured out more to my short faux-lesbian story. I'd like to revise it and finish it over the summer.